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therevada buddhists vs mahayana buddhists on buddha

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  • therevada arhats, buddha was just regular historical person
  • mahayana boddhisatvas, buddha still spiritually exists
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3 marks of existence

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  • anitya
  • dukkha
  • anatman
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3 types dukkha

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  • dukkha dukkha - ordinary suffering
  • viparinama dukkha - from change
  • sankhara dukkha - suble dissatiffaction with life
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3 poisons

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  • greed (lobha)
  • hatred (dosa)
  • ignorence (moha)
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3 jewels

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dharma, sangha, buddha

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trikaya

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  • aspects of the buddha
  • created body - physical body
  • enjoyment body - superior nature of enlightened ones
  • reality body - abstract and absolute principle- dharma
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4 noble truths

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1) dukkha
2) samudaya - tanha is the origin of dukkha
3) nirodha - cessation of suffering
4) magga - 8 fold path

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8 fold path

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  • right view
  • right intention
  • right speech
  • right action
  • right livelihood
  • right effort
  • right mindfulness
  • right concentration
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5 precepts

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1) avoid taking life
2) avoid theft
3) avoid sexual misconduct
4) refrain from false speech
5) avoid intoxication

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6 perfections

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  • dana - generosity
  • sila - virtue
  • ksanti - patience
  • virya - effort
  • dhyana - concentration
  • prajna - wisdom
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special things about birth of buddha

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  • mother had white elephant in dream
  • birth standing
  • walk 7 steps north and spoke
  • flowers bloomed as he walked
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what buddha said after birth

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I am the chief in the world, i am the best in the world, i am the first in the world. This is my last birth. There will be no further rebirth.

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what buddha said when abandoning life as ascetic

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My body has reached a state of emaciation

Maha-sihanada Sutra

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What buddha said when sitting down at bodhi tree

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I will not give up this seat without attaining complete awakening

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What buddha said when he initially wasn’t going to teach

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this generation takes delight in attachment… it is hard for them to see this truth, namely, nirvana

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god of compassion who convinced buddha to teach

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Bramha Sahampati

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17
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Dhamma is raft quote

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‘Dhamma is for crossing over, not retaining’

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18
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Don’t blindly follow name and quote and sutra

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  • Ehipassiko
  • ‘do not believe anything simply because you have heard it’ - Kalama sutta
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Initial trust needed in the teachings name

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Saddha
‘trustful confidence’

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Buddha nature
(mahayana)

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all people have ability to become enlightened like the buddha

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Buddha teaching suggesting to being boddhisatva

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‘go forth for the welfare of the many’

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Dalai lama number, name, birth year

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  • 14th dalai lama
  • Tenzin Gyatso
  • 1935
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23
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When china started occupation of tibet

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1951

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24
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Where dalai lama fled to

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Dharamsala

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25
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what he does for peace and year of nobel peace prize

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  • persuade UN general assembly to resolve and protect
  • 1989 nobel prize
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3 parts of the pali canon (tripitaka)

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1) vinaya pitaka (rules for monastic sangha)
2) Sutra pitaka (teachings)
3) Abhidhamma pitaka (higher explinations or physiology of mind)

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27
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teachings that mahayana buddhists wrote

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  • white lotus sutra (pop. in china and japan)
  • heart sutra
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important sections in the sutra pitaka

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  • Dhammapada
  • jataka tales
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29
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Buddha quote about the dhamma

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‘profound, hard to see, hard to understand, peaceful, sublime, beyond the sphere of mere reasoning, subtle, to be experienced by the wise’

30
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  • hearing
  • reflecting
  • development of citta
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prajna

31
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chanting sutras for benefit of protection

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paritta

32
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what someone chants to become a buddhist

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‘I take refuge in the Buddha, I take refuge in the Dhamma, I take refuge in the Sangha’

33
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things monks, nuns must do

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  • renounce family and ordinary household
  • minimal personal possessions
  • not handle money
  • no farming
34
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three parts of the vihara*, temple complex

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  • monastery
  • shrine hall
  • stupa/pagoda
35
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things in shrine hall

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  • images, statues of buddha
  • offerings
  • drum or bell
  • thangkas (Tibetan- depict life of Buddha)
  • prayer wheels and prayer flags outside (tibet)
36
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karmic fruitfulness

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punya

37
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karmic fruitfulness

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punya

38
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ceremony to make image the buddha

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Buddhabhiseka
give the image insight of the dhamma

39
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mandala

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  • symbolic picture of the universe
  • destruction of sand mandalas to show anitya
40
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the wheel of life (and name)

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  • bhavachakra
  • represents samsara
  • held by demon/mara
  • three poisons in middle
41
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most famous buddhist mantra

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  • om mani padme hum
42
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prayer wheel

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  • filled with scroll of mantra
43
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sri lanka birth ceremony

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  • milk on lips
  • cutting hair
44
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tibet birth ceremony

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  • mantras for conception and healthy pregnancy
  • bodhisattva manjusri painted on baby’s toung
  • taken to monastery to get name
45
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Thailand birth ceremony

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  • local monk
  • naming
46
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all life ceremonies genera

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  • monk gives blessings and good karmic energy
  • symbolised by pouring water from vessel to vessel
  • in exchange monk gets offerings
47
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therevada countries ‘coming of age’

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  • young boy to become monk for short time to get punya
48
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Poy Sang Long
(thailad, myanmar)

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  • heads shaved
  • extravagant costumes
  • makeup
  • carried on shoulders 3 days
  • representing prince siddharta
  • replace clothes with robes
49
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Buddha quote family not important for enlightenment

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Not a mother, nor a father, nor any other relative can do more for the well-being of one than a rightly directed mind can
(Dhammapada 43)

50
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Buddha about not grieving death

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Do not grieve, do not lament. For have I not taught that with all that is dear and beloved there must be change, separation, severance?

Mahaparinibbana sutta

51
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stages of being dead frim tibetan book of the dead

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1) does not know is dead and light appears
2) know are dead and get review of life
3) karma leads them to appropriate realm

52
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Theravada funerals

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  • donations to transfer merit
  • offering monk new robes
  • portrait, offerings to buddha
  • cremation more common
  • recite 3 refuges and 5 precepts
  • pouring of water
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mahayana funerals

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  • 49 day interval before rebirth (antarabhava)
  • tibetan sky burrials - lots of merit transfer
  • cremation common
  • tibeten book of dead read
  • japan - pick out bones from ashes with chopsticks
54
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2 qualities attained by meditation

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  • samatha - calm, peace, focus, alert
  • vipassana - wisdom, insight (understanding 3 marks)
55
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puja

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honouring, reverencing

56
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Buddha and incense quote

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‘he of fragrant mind and fragrant face, with infinite virtues’

57
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four stages of higher consciousness developed in meditation

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jhanas

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five hindrances (of meditation)

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  • sensual pleasure
  • sloth
  • bitterness
  • restlessness
  • doubt
59
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malas

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string of beads to help focus

60
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Buddha quote private and alone devotion is better

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my life is spent…take refuge unto yourself, seeking no external refuge, with the Dhamma as your island, the Dhamma as your refuge

Mahaparinibbana Sutta

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attachment to rites and rituals

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silavrataparamarsa

62
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sensual craving

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kamaraga

63
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wesak

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  • day of birth, enlightenment, parinibbana
  • most important for therevada
64
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wesak celebrations

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  • sri lanka - lights
  • wesak cards with life of buddha
  • myanmar - bodhi trees watered
  • thailand, cambodia, laos - monks lead laity to circle stupas
  • donate blood and give dhamma books
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nirvana day

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  • mahayana festival
  • reflect on death of self and others and anitya
66
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nirvana day celebrations

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  • meditaiton
  • go to vihara
  • social occasion - food, presents
67
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Buddha quote pilgrimage and punya

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‘whoever shall die while on pilgrimage to the shrines… re-arise in a fortunate destiny in a heavenly world’

Mahaparinibbana sutra

68
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2 benefits word of pilgramage

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Adhisthana - influence, blessing
Nidana - physical proximity that allows adhisthana to pass from one thing to another

69
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pilgrim place of where buddha born

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Kapilavastu

70
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bodh gaya

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  • tree chose by buddha because could support weight of dhamma
  • meditate, chant, worship
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Sarnath and thigs there

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  • deer park where first semon
  • Dharmekh stupa - spot of sermon
  • Mulagandakuti vihara - where buddha first stayed as monk
  • meditate, chant worship, walk around stupa

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